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- G. STRIGKLAND.

LATHE SLIDE REST.

No. 507,047. V Patented 001;. 17, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERALD STRIOKLAND, OF VILLA BOLOGNA, ISLAND OF MALTA.

LATH E SLIDE-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,047, dated October 17, 1893.

Application. filed May 1'7, 1893. Serial No. 474,575. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALD STRICKLAND, Count della Oatena, a citizen of Great Britain, residing at Villa Bologna, in the Island of Malta, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lathe Slide-Rests, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an appliance to the slide rest of a lathe by which I render it suitable for subjecting work in aconvenient manner to the action of milling tools or revolving cutters, as I shall describe referring to the accompanying drawing, which shows in perspective the head, mandrel and slide rest of a lathe with my invention applied thereto.

a is a milling tool or revolving cutter.

b is a piece of work, such as a hexagonal nut for a ratchet brace, which is to be milled. In order to subject this work I) to the action of the cutter a, I fix it by dogs a, or in any other known manner, on a horizontal shelf at projecting from a vertical slide 6 which is worked by a screw and handle f, and is held by a bracket 9 detachably bolted on to the upper of the two slides h andi of an ordinary slide rest. By means of these slides I can move I) longitudinally and transversely in the horizontal plane, while, by means of the detachably supported slide e, I can move it to or from the cutter a in the vertical plane.

Having thus described the nature of this invention and the best means I know of carrying the same into practical eifect,I claim- The combination with a milling tool and the horizontal slides h and i, of the bracket 9 detachably supported on the upper horizontal slide, and the vertically movable slide e attached to said bracket and having ahorizontally projecting shelf 01 provided with dogs 0 for holding the work, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 19th day of April, A. D. 1893.

GERALD STRICKLAND.

Witnesses:

J. Dnaons, C. AGINS. 

